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What was the last vamp flick you seen?
I was just wondering for those who have watch any vampire horror movies lately? If so which one was it?
The last vamp flick I've seen at home was Salem's Lot. The second version. =)~
The movie Vampire with James Woods is a little known and very entertaining vampire movie. James Woods leads a team of Vampire Hunters. One of thier weapons is a heavy cross bow that fires a barbed arrow with a cable attached to the back of a jeep. Then they drag the vamps out into the sun for a spectacular flame out, LOL. Near Dark is another cult type vampire movie very good, and then From Dusk Til Dawn the pulp Tarentino classic with two homicidal bank robbing brothers ending up at a vampire bar in Mexico for a throw down fight. Really really great stuff. It is strange the burning in day light thing. The very earliest dead serious study of vampires written in 1700 by a lawyer studying vampire slayings in a lawsuit is called Magia Posthuma. In the Magia Posthuma this guy investigates several Revelants as early vampires are called. They have been seen after death by night and by day. One dead Shepard who was seen after his death and acussed of murdering sevral people is dug up. Found to be alive, and after being staked in his grave shouts "thanks for this stick to beat the dogs away". He rises that night and kills more people than before. It is not unitl he is burned that he is distroyed. In all the earliest fictional Vampyre stories which you can buy published in one book on Amazon with the earliest three John Polodoris The Vampyre, Carmilla, and Dracula. All three in one book and they are the very best. The first two are long short stories,and Dracula of course is a full length book. In all these stories the Vampires move around perfectly fine in daylight. Carmilla is even warm and cuddly uh hm. Happy Holiday
Hmm I suppose it can be considered a "flick" but the anime hour long movie Blood the Last Vampire. It was interesting.
Cool I will keep my eyes peeled. I like just about any movie with vampires. Andy Warhols Dracula, Fearless Vampire Killers with Sharon Tate directed by Roman Polanski. Just before Sharon was knocked of by the Manson gang of psychopathic hippies. It's worth wathching for that reason alone. Vampire art films are good. I wish I could have seen Willam Dafoes version of Nosferatu. I am ordering season one of TrueBlood. You should see the trailers for season 2 at TrueBlood.com home page. Killer,chiller, no filler, LOL.
I tried watching True Blood and I couldn't do it. Nothing wrong with the story line, I just can't stand the accents that the people use. It's almost entirely too much, I've decided I'll read them first. I like just about anything too, even though over half of the stuff out there is horrendous, I still enjoy them.
Where are you from? TrueBlood is dead on accurate as to how people speak in the SOUTH. The name of the town is Bon Temps in the book. It is French like most everything in Louisiana. The name Bon Temps pronouned in French is Bon Tom. The Southern Vampire mysteries are easily the best Vampire serial books out there. Also TrueBlood is really accurate to the books because Charlaine Harris the southerner who wrote them also produces the series. TrueBloods I think is really a truely great TV show. The books sometimes border on porn in some parts. But hey it's adult vampire reading not from the YA section of the library. Compaired with the real Vampire classics Dracula, Carmilla, or The Vampyre it is pulp fiction. But at least it is entertaining, and not out and out garbage like most modern vampire series.
I'm from Georgia, and I don't know anyone who sounds like that. Of course I don't know anyone from Louisiana so I can't say that for them. I'm going to give them a try again, it's going to have to be one of those shows I watch sparingly. I like the over all idea of the series so I think once I get past the audio annoyance I'll like it more.
Well Texas is next door to Louisiana and everyone sounds like a cowboy there. But Louisana deffinity has a real strong French ifluence where Texas is more Anglo/Mexican. Georgia is clear on the other side of the country. So is suspect someone from Georgia would sound as different to me as someone from Southern Califonia, LOL. I can remeber when I moved to Arizona for 14 years and talked to an Oklahoma friend after I had been away about four or five years. I tought God this guy sounds like a hick. Too funy. Yeah I love Sookie Stackhouse.
Lol, true. I would say for the most part we sound "country" but places like Alabama or Mississippi sound far more so then us. I was going to watch the season today, but it seems that the tvs are in use...Any other movies or shows you would recommend? I've seen a lot so listing them here for reference would take to long. lol
I think a Gerogia accent would sound really nice. I have always liked Southern accents. Where ever they were in the South. In Oklahoma we sound pretty similar to Texas. Louisiana is a little odd because of the French influence. But I would guess people from Mississippi and Alabama would sound like poeple in Georgia or Florida. There is another vampire series on cable. Maybe it's Vampire Diaries or something similar to that. I am not sure. But there is another vamp TV series besides Trueblood. There is also a new 2009 Movie Carmilla with Brit pop star Simmone Kayne. It is similar to the book and was filmed in Styria. However instead of the lovely cultured bisexual Carmilla. They have this sex crazed ho doing Laura and some guy both and vamping them. Plus you have to listen to Simmones terrible music which is the sound track, LOL. I have longed for a good movie version of Carmilla along the lines of "Braum Stokers Dracula" in being faithful to the book. For some reason no one has ever seen the need to do this for Carmilla. It's a really elegant long short story, and a shame no one ever did a good version of it. I am reading Sookie Stackhouse Dead as a Door Nail. After that I will be ready for the last of the Southern Vampire/True Blood books. Dead and Gone which I hear is sad because as the title suggests. Somebody maybe even Sookie herself gets dead and gone.
I'll try to find the other series as well as the Carmilla movie. It sounds interesting. lolI'm slowly running out of things to read so hopefully I can go get Dead Until Dark and start the series finally.
I've been diagnosed with a book buying addiction by the people I know, and they've been keeping a close eye on my wallet so talking them into allowing me a few more books will be hard. lol
I got all my Southern Vampire mysteries from the country library. I would not spend money on modern vamp books. I own personal copies of the classics Dracula, Carmilla git a couple copies of it. The Vampyre by John Podori is online with lots of other great gothic vamp stories at Horrormasters.com for free. Mystery of the Campagna rocks! Carmilla is on line several places. Just google up Carmilla and you'll get about three sites that offer it in full text. Carmilla is my girl. If I ever fell in love with a character in a book it was her. You never have to run out of things to read. There are many great stories online free. The best as a matter of fact. Right now I am trying to find a copy of the earliest know western vampire text. Magia Posthuma which is out of print and I will have to go through an antique book dealer. It was written in 1700 by a lawyer studying vampire or revelant cases. Part of it are in the Vampire Dictionary or Encyclopedia, which is an encyclopedia of Vampire history. Some times I still think I can hear Carmillas light foot step out side my drawing room door.
True I always forget about the online books, if it does come down to me not having anything then I'll remind myself about them(I've bookmarked the site). I've heard of Magia Posthuma, it's referenced in a few of the books I've read. It seems like it would be quite interesting.
Oh yeah the case of the Sheppard of Blaum investigated by thie Austrian lawyer is a riot. The Sheppard dies and is seen later alive by day and by night. Then he is acussed of several local murders. Then his body is dug up and found in fit condition. Back then poor people were just buried in a winding sheet not even a coffin. While he is being staked to the bottom of his grave. The Sheppard wakes up and screams "thanks for the stick to beat of the dogs with." Then he arises that night and starts to kill more people than before. Finally he is seen in daylight and tackled by the local villagers, put in a cart and taken of by the town executioner to be burned on a pyre. Which finally gets rid of him. I am trying real hard to get a copy of "The Magia Posthuma". This all occurs in Styria and Moldavia or Moravia vamp capitals of the western world. Both Romanian or Austrian states I believe.
Lol. I love reading about the old vampire tales as well, I just finished a book called the Vampires: The Occult Truth, and it had several stories in there. I think my favorite from those was about a village in Greece. This woman's husband killed himself and as a result was excommunicated from the church (which was believed to cause vampires). After about a week he started to be seen around the village, and so when the wife's friend asked her about it, she admitted that he had came and slept with her every night since he was buried. So of course the village went to his grave and dug him up, to find him in "perfect" condition. Quickly they cut his chest open and took out his heart, which was the only non-liquidfied organ in his body. Then quickly removed his head. He stopped showing up, but the wife ended up pregnant and the priest had to kill the child.Pretty interesting story.
Wow poor kid, sick priest. If I can't find a copy of the Magia I am going to get the Vampire Encylopedia. It's cool that vampire shows are making their way into TV and modern culture. The tone them down a bit to make them more likeable. Some times the Sookie Stackhouse books are a bit outlandish. I just started Dead as a Door Nail. Sookie brother Jason has been turned into a were mountain lion. In her mythos if you are the ofspring of two shifters you turn into a pure Lion. But if you are turned by being bitten. I prcosses than takes repeated bites over a period of time. These bitten were people can only change into the grotesque have man half animal type were's. So Sookies brother Jason has gone through his first moon cyle and stalked and eaten some wild animal at night. She is fixing him breakfast and he throws up all this raw meat he had eaten the night before. EWWh! Anyway check out the season two trailers where the black drag queen Lafayette is talking about different people in Bon Tom he is really funy. This other black chic is talking about shifter Sam who can shift into any animal but chooses a large Collie dog. She tells lafayette that Sam barks in his sleep. Lafayette laconicly states. Yeah dem white peoples is crazy! LOL
Oh yeah Lafayette is the most funny and interesting charecter in the TV show. However in the books he only barley makes it into chapter 1 of book two "Living Dead in Dallas". Where he is found murdered in his car. Also in the books his character is not that well developed. He is a drag queen who sells vampire blood, and is the cook at Merlottes were Sookie is a waitress. His ivolvement in this vamp blood trade gets him wacked. However I think in the TV series they are going to keep him alive because they have developed his character allot more, and he is really one of the characters you enjoy most. I like Lonsome Vampire Bill the best, and Pam of the vamps. Eric, Pams maker and Sheriff of Shreveport is Ok. Of the Shreveport Werewoles Alcade(Alsay)is easilly the coolest. Werewolves associate in packs, and consider themselves above other shape shifters who are loners. They hate vampires and witches. So Sookie is the center around which all these super natural creatures who usually avoid each other come together. Sookie being a quarter fairy by blood and telepath is known to all supernaturals around. Vamps, Shifters, Deamons, Witches. Who all respect her, and often use her as a mediator between factions. Yup Sookie is Adult reading for sure. If you ever read "Dead to the World" your gonnah be asking your boy friend to do an Erik number on yah tee hee. Sex is Southern Vampyre mysteries is very explicit.
I finished watching the dvds my brother & I rented of True Blood. We needed a refresher of the show before watching the second seaseon. The show was good, but I find the novel better. I know I need to finish the series. =)~
Books are always better bacause nothing equals you own imagination. No computer graphics could depict the pictures conjured up in your mind. Plus they just can't depict allot of what happens in Souhtern Vampire Mysteries. It would be to costly for TV, and there is so much explicit sex. Some of it is straight up porn. Not to detract from the fact that the Sothern Vampire stories have real clever plot lines, and interesting characters.
Just want to say that I come from lower Alabama, and I can tell that everyone's accent in True Blood is inaccurate. Even the MOST southern, country, backwoods person doesn't sound like they do. And I know...a few are relatives of mine. (Don't judge!)
Also, I'd just like to say that, as one who has read every book of the Sookie Stackhouse series, True Blood is not accurate. It started out that way, but now things are happening that don't even resemble anything that happens in the books. Also, I think each season is supposed to be one book. Everything in Season 1 happens in Dead Until Dark.
I thought season one was pretty extremely acurate for a book turned TV. All the charters where cool, and the basic plot was only slightly altered. Charlaine Harris who wrote the books produces it and I was real impressed by how close it was to the book. I love lonesome vampire Bill. Laffayette is killer. Sookie herself is award winning actress Anna Paquin. What do yah want? I like the TV version of Lafayette the drag queen better than the skinny wimpy gay sterio type version used by Charlaine Harris in her books. Matter of fact other than correct pronunciation the southern accent is very weak. I always thought southern accents sounded eloquente. Not hicky at all. You need to come out to rural Oklahoma or Texas to hear some real hilly billy talking. I have no doubt rural Alabama is just frighting sounding, LOL. Accents vary from state to state in the south but all have a similar sound to them. Just like all people from the New York or Chicago sound very similar. Chicago cops pulled us over. "Whats youse guys tink your duin sneaking around dis alley". Laffayette is one of the main characters in the TV series where he is a minor character in the book. But by and large season one is very accurate to Dead Until Dark. I have read all those books but Dead and Gone myself. Have you ever been to Louisiana? Just curious because they pronounce all the words correctly at least. The story is in northern Louisiana around Shrieveport and the accents of Northern Louisiana are not as heavy as the Cajun ones close to New Oleans honey. They don't call the town Bon TeMps they call in Bon Thom which would be the correct pronuciation of Bon Temps in French. The accents are close enough. Oh and Einin your profile pic looks really cute and I just bet your accent sounds way cute too. Cheers, Cary
Ever check out TrueBlood on TV? Carmilla 2009 is the latest Vampire Movie. The are makng a redo of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Not sure if its a movie or TV series.
Today I have see this old cute 80's vampire movie called My Best Friend is a Vampire. I haven't seen it in years. It was pretty cool & funny. Another movie that I've seen at home is Twilight. I keep watching that one as crazy. =)~
Well I'll tell yah vamps are catching on. There are now two regular vampire TV shows. With TrueBlood on HBO starting it's second season in a couple weeks. Plus starting this Fall "The Vampire Diaries" on the CW channel 19. I really wish Moolight would have made it. It was killed by the writters strike. They should have taken the wirtters, and kickded they ass. But at least there is a new show, and on a channel I can get. I think TrueBlood with Sookie Stackhouse is the best. But in all fairness I have not seen any episodes of Vampire Diaries so who knows what its like? TrueBlood is gonna be hard to beat.
Cary wrote: " Well I'll tell yah vamps are catching on. There are now two regular vampire TV shows. With TrueBlood on HBO starting it's second season in a couple weeks. Plus starting this Fall "The Vampire Diar..."
Yeah that is the show I was telling you about. The vampire Diaries is based on L.J. Smith's books. You should look at the preview for the show!
I have of course looked at clips for the new TrueBlood season. But I am still looking for clips of Vamp Diaries. I'll find em! I just gottah say
" I love Carmilla" If your out there come bite me baby!
http://www.vampire-diaries.net/tag/video...This has some clips, and an extended trailer for the vampire Diaries tv show. I just want them to announce what date it premeries on! I know it starts this fall...
Man don't you hate it when some little thing screws up your whole computer. I ate a cookie over the keyboard and a cookie crumb fell down into the keys. So I could not type anymore. Then I vaucmed out my keyboard with a super suction shop vac. Presto typing going on again. Yeah they are running adds for the Fall premiere of Vampire Diaries. Sookie still rules, and Buffy and Moonlight. Man I am getting so old I can't keep up with them all,LOL.
I saw part of a sci-fi vampire movie called Bitten. It had Jason Mewes in it (Jay from Jay and Silent Bob). Can't say I particularly impressed but for a Sc-fi channel movie it was horrible either.
Some times little off beat vampire movies can be pretty good. There is an adaptation of Carmilla Called Blood and Roses 1967 set in the deep South. It was part of a one hour TV horror series,and quite good. Andy Warhols Dracula is just plain funny as Dracula must have the blood of a virgin and in the modern world he just cant find one,LOL. There are more and more vampire books, movies, and TV coming out. The Vampire Diaries coming up on the CW is not really my cup of tea but a least its there. I am so tired of the good guy vampire in high school thing. The biggest mistake they made in The Vampire Diares which is taken from those lame L.J. Smith Y.A. section books. Is the all the actors cast look way to old to be in high school. They look rediculously out of place. At least Sarah Gellar and crew in Buffy the Vampire slayer looked like high school age people. As they got older they shifted to being in College or the adult world. However in Vampire Diaries they are looking to old from the Gitgo. People here need to learn to speak their mind about things. Either that or we need more members in this group. Vampire Lovers should have thousands of members. If you judge by current popularity of vampires. So speak up!
I need to watch Andy Warhols Dracula, I've yet to see it. I doubt I'll be watching The Vampire Diaries, I'm sick of that whole plot line as well, just seems unoriginal and boring. I've always leaned toward the more developed books and movies anyway.
I tell yah in movies about vampires. Braum Stokers Dracula is highly unusual. Modern vampire movies tend to be about violence,and sex. Which is OK in movies like Under World,and Blade. Then you have the ones about love which are really just not well done like Twilight. There are those few vampire movies out there with a interesting twist like from From Dusk Till Dawn. I can't think of any recent ones. As far as TV vampires TrueBlood is a major achievement
Yeah I agree modern vampires have a major lust issue sometimes. I mean it's good but in moderation, people tend to forget or dismiss that a vampire isn't all about the erotic. Twilight for me is just confusing, I don't get how so many people LOVE the movie. It was so bad to me. The graphics and acting...it made me cringe and I could hradly watch it.
People have such different reactions to that movie. Allot of people like the vampires playing baseball scene with the Muse soundtrack. I thought that vampires playing baseball was the stupidest idea I ever heard off. You would think anyone that fast and powerful would create their own game.
Cary wrote: " Some times little off beat vampire movies can be pretty good. There is an adaptation of Carmilla Called Blood and Roses 1967 set in the deep South. It was part of a one hour TV horror series,and q..."
I don't know...I think the actors look like they're in high school. Other than the actor playing Damon, but he isnt supposed to be in high school anyways...
TONIGHT IS TRUE BLOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you tell I am excited??? LOL Is everyone watching it tonight???
Hey there Joy I just got HBO in a AT&T package phone, TV, and internet. My package includes HBO. I cant wait to start watching Sookie! Whoo hoo
Right on, with actors like Anna Paquin and Nelson Ellis it's got to be killer. I don't think I have seen another TV show that had young award winning actors, and movie stars in a TV drama before. Vampire Bill is no slouch either. They made Lafayettes character much better than the Lafayette in the series. Well in the series Lafayette only makes it to the first chapter of book two. He's baciscally just the drag queen cook of Merlottes,and his character is never well developed. I will say that Tara of Tara's Togs and Sookies best frrend is also not a black girl in the book. But it makes things more interestig. I love the AIDs Burger clip, LOL.
Burgendya wrote: " I was just wondering for those who have watch any vampire horror movies lately? If so which one was it?
The last vamp flick I've seen at home was Salem's Lot. The second version. =)~"
unfurtunately, the last vamp movie i saw was twilight, and that thing is so freaky, it SHOULD b considered a horror movie... *shudders*
The last vamp flick I've seen at home was Salem's Lot. The second version. =)~"
unfurtunately, the last vamp movie i saw was twilight, and that thing is so freaky, it SHOULD b considered a horror movie... *shudders*
How funny everyone raved about the book. But nobody has said much about Twilight the movie at all. Some teenagers liked it. One girl said it had a Muse sound track during the baseball game. I think the whole twilight concept was lame. I read the book. It was hard and I kind of skiped over allot of it. Because it was just Bella talking to herself about how gorgeous Edward was. How twilight ever got published I will never know. You'll notice your not hearing much about it know. It was a flash in the Pan. It never made library shelves even. Sookie Stackhouse books are in every library.
I read the book before the hype thankfully and liked it...I mean the plot was super simple and over done in the teenage fantasy and there was alot that could of been improved so when the craze started happening the small amount of like I had was gone instantly. Besides after a point in the book you start to guess what's going to happen next and you're never wrong. So you can conclude that you somehow developed ESP or the plot is beyond shallow. The movie was...worse.
I'm glad that a good vampire series is getting recognition now on tv. I just hope once I get into the books it doesn't disappoint, it shouldn't though. I doubt it will.
The Southern Vampire Mysteries...I think is the name of the book series. Or Trueblood as it's known on tv
Trust me Sookie Stackhouse books rock and the TV series cant begin to cover the sex angle in Sookie Stackhouse. Some of which borders on porn. Sookie Stackhouse books are outtah site. They where so good they made an amazing TV series. All the characters all pretty true to the books. Except Lafayette who is way cooler in the TV series than in the books. In the books Lafayette is just Merlotte's drag queen cook and thats about it. For TV they made Lafayettes character a major player. That is about the only real difference. They made Lafayettes character a lot sexier and intuitive too. Final word its all good books and TV. Sookie Stackhouse A #1
